| Description |
xv, 108 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Ellen D. Wagner -- Sexual Identity Issues in the Workplace: Past and Present / Alan L. Ellis -- Multicultural Existence in the Workplace: Including How I Thrive as a Latina Lesbian Feminist / Gina Scuteri Rosabal -- Employment and Sexual Orientation: Disclosure and Discrimination in the Workplace / M. V. Lee Badgett -- Domestic Partner Benefits: A Bottom Line Discussion / Sue Spielman and Liz Winfeld -- The Impact of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Workplace Issues on Productivity / Bob Powers -- Gay and Lesbian Career Counselling: Special Career Counseling Issues / Mark Pope |
| Summary |
Sexual Identity on the Job: Issues and Services explores the meaning and the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the work place in both theoretical and practical perspectives. It highlights issues being confronted by employers and workers alike. The editors and contributors courageously grapple with dilemmas, and passionately discuss issues ranging in subject matter from multiple cultural and undervalued identities, trends in economic discrimination, economic reasons to provide domestic partner benefits, education needs of decisionmakers, and career concerns as well as career counseling concerns of lesbians, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. This thoughtful book reveals how discrimination on the job affects the lives of all employees, and provides an exceptional view into the psychological issues faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people related to employment issues |
| Notes |
"'Sexual identity on the job: issues and services' has also been published as Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, Volume 4, Number 4 1996"--t.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sex discrimination in employment -- United States.
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Bisexuals -- Employment -- United States.
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Gays -- Employment -- United States.
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Gender identity -- United States.
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Lesbians -- Employment -- United States.
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| Author |
Ellis, Alan, 1957-
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Riggle, Ellen D. B.
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| LC no. |
96020265 |
| ISBN |
1560247606 |
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1560230762 paperback acid-free paper |
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